Manhattan Meetup Saturday, September 24, 2016

I thought a few of us would just get together some time in the early afternoon and ride as a pack through Central Park (this isn't going to be nearly as involved as the LA meetup, which sounds exciting; I don't much feel like being a tour guide and I figured none of you would be tourists anyway).

I've gotten a few responses by email but I don't have everyone's address, so hopefully people on the forums will see this and ping the people they know that don't visit the forums any more.

It's about 3 miles, and we can take any detours that we want to along the way. There's a good mix of pavement, grass, soft dirt, gravel, hills -- whatever we want to do, we can do, depending on battery life. We can ride by lakes, near waterfalls, under and on bridges, past a castle and a zoo, etc.

When we start running low, if people bring their own chargers, we can ride to my apartment nearby and charge our OWs in the lobby of the building. While our boards refuel, we can grab a quick snack and/or drink at any of the nearby establishments (not sure what you wear when riding, but Dallas BBQ is reasonably priced and will let us in wearing just about anything; I guess we can go somewhere nicer like Daniel, Mark, Carlyle, etc. too but there's a dress code so you'll have to wear something appropriate).

I'm very happy to have gotten the OW. With the exception of this week (which I've taken off to heal a variety of scrapes and bruises and sprains, in preparation for this Saturday), I've been riding a few miles every day.

I was only able to glean the emails of five people who've posted that they were in or around New York. Two have affirmatively responded that they would be coming. I've tagged the others in a couple posts, but I guess this forum software doesn't send out any email notifications when that happens.

Central Park is such a great place to ride. And there's almost endless routes for exploration. The only thing it's missing is a beach.